Dead Shark Found On NYC Subway; Are People Taking Shark Week 2013 Too Far?

If you live in New York City and travel on the subway chances are you have seen and smelled some pretty unusual things. A small group of New Yorkers may have the best "You'll never guess what I saw on the subway today," story.

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New Yorkers riding a Queens-bound N train at midnight this morning were greeted by a smell even more unusual than what New Yorkers are used to. When passengers boarded the train they were hit with an intense dead fish smell. When they looked underneath a bench the straphangers learned what was causing the order. There was a dead shark onboard the train.

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One of the passengers took a picture of the dead shark and uploaded it to Instagram. The rail rider also sent the picture and an account of what happened to the Gothamist. Witness Mary M. told the Gothamist,

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I board a car that's not terribly full and as soon as I enter, a stench hits my nose. It's not the typical urine/trash smell, it's...fishy? I look down to the end of the car to see a dead shark on the floor. I think I stood there for a good minute just staring, thinking 'Is this for real?! Oh come ON, NYC!' One of my fellow passengers remarked 'I've been riding the subway for 15 years, and this is the weirdest thing I've seen. And I've seen EVERYTHING.' The train filled as we made our way to Astoria, every new passenger was getting excited about it. Once we got to Queensboro Plaza, an MTA employee made all of us move to another car.

Mary M. boarded the N train at the 34^th street station. She did not see who left the dead shark on the subway car. The Gothamist reports it has seen people selling small sharks out of a bucket on various subway lines.